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Job Reproves his Friends
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God
“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
my ear has heard and understood it.
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
I am not inferior to you.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
But I would speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to argue my case with God.
and I desire to argue my case with God.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
As for you, you whitewash with lies;
worthless physicians are you all.
worthless physicians are you all.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Oh that you would keep silent,
and it would be your wisdom!
and it would be your wisdom!
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Hear now my argument
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
and speak deceitfully for him?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Will you show partiality toward him?
Will you plead the case for God?
Will you plead the case for God?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Will it be well with you when he searches you out?
Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
if in secret you show partiality.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Will not his majesty terrify you,
and the dread of him fall upon you?
and the dread of him fall upon you?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;
your defenses are defenses of clay.
your defenses are defenses of clay.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
“Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
and let come on me what may.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and put my life in my hand?
and put my life in my hand?
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
This will be my salvation,
that the godless shall not come before him.
that the godless shall not come before him.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Keep listening to my words,
and let my declaration be in your ears.
and let my declaration be in your ears.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Behold, I have prepared my case;
I know that I shall be in the right.
I know that I shall be in the right.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
For then I would be silent and die.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Only grant me two things,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
then I will not hide myself from your face:
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
withdraw your hand far from me,
and let not dread of you terrify me.
and let not dread of you terrify me.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Then call, and I will answer;
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
How many are my iniquities and my sins?
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Why do you hide your face
and count me as your enemy?
and count me as your enemy?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Will you frighten a driven leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
and pursue dry chaff?
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
For you write bitter things against me
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.